On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:14:46 -0000, "Richard Wordingham
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wrote:
>Incidentally, why do the Anatolians need to have 'stayed behind in the
>Balkans', rather than having stayed behind in Western Anatolia?
Attractive though it is to let the Anatolian group stay behind in
Anatolia rather than somewhere in the Balkans, especially given that
the Balkan Neolithic came from Anatolia in the first place (the
technology certainly, the people maybe), it does create an impossible
timeline problem. If Renfrew is right, and the homeland is in
Anatolia, the date of PIE must slip back at least two millennia
further into the past (to at least 7500 or 8000 BC), which is
stretching it too far.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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